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"Mr President, first of all I would like to send my best regards to Commissioner Viviane Reding and thank her for the initiative she has shown in the field of sport. I am also really very glad that Commissioner Vitorino delivered this speech on the special features of sport.
Although, unfortunately, sport still does not have a legal basis in the European Union, it has many special features that must be taken into account in the work of the Union. This is the direction it has been going in since Amsterdam. Sport affects all the citizens of Europe, in one way or another. It has been estimated that a hundred million people take an active interest in it in the European Union. Sport has many important social, cultural and, besides, very significant economic dimensions.
It is a very positive sign that the Union’s sports ministers would like a statement made at the Nice Summit that would act as an extension to the Helsinki report that came out a little under a year ago. As the purpose is to determine those ways in which matters of sport can be taken into account in community legislation, we may speak of gradual progress made in this important area. The agenda before us is totally acceptable. Special attention must be paid to the system of player transfers and the protection of young sportsmen and women, the role of national sports federations, club ownership, television rights, sport’s civic work and ethical principles.
As we shape the EU’s policy on sports, we have to take account of sport’s different structures. For that reason, I hope that non-governmental sporting organisations will continue to be heard after the Olympics meeting in 1999. At the same time we have to remember that, although many questions that require us to take a stand are connected with the professional and commercial aspects of sport, sport and exercise have a wider significance than this with regard to individuals and society. We have to pay attention, for example, to young people’s opportunities to take up exercise as well as issues of gender equality.
The European Parliament has often expressed its concern with regard to drugs and called for more effective action to counter their use. It is gratifying, therefore, that the Community’s extent of involvement in WADA (
) and in its financing is now being clarified. This issue was discussed by Coreper on Wednesday. It is only natural that the member of the Commission responsible for sports should represent the Union in WADA in the future."@en1
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